Procrastinate on Purpose

The negative impact of waiting to invest your money is the exact same negative impact of waiting to invest into something that can be Automated to save you time. The key insight from all of these investment principles is to realize that automation is to your time what compounding interest is to your money.

If you invest your time into creating the training program, however, then you make a more significant impact because exponentially more customers can receive great service through the influence you make on the other customer service agents.

What did I take from that? Quit telling everyone how busy you are. Resist the indulgence of saying “I am too busy.” Your problem is not that you are too busy; your problem is that you don’t own your situation.

And yet where in all of the “time-management” classes is the section that teaches you how to manage your emotions? Which book on systems strategy addresses the human element of our decision making? And what productivity professor has a technique for how to respond when your beautiful two-year-old girl—whom you love more than anything in the whole w

self-indulgent complaining about how we’re so busy or there just isn’t enough time in a day. If you are saying those things to yourself, then you are allowing yourself to be a victim—like

Another way of thinking about it is that I’m getting paid to wait on spending my money.

But the common theme in all cases is that they are paid for their results. They aren’t paid for their activity. They aren’t paid for their time. They aren’t paid for their effort. They aren’t paid for their competency, capacity or even ability. They simply and clearly are paid for their results.

Choosing how to spend your time isn’t just logical; it’s emotional. Human beings are not logical creatures. We are emotional. As human beings, we are driven by feeling and we are moved by impulses.

no matter how long your perspective is, we do only have a finite amount of time, and there are, as we mentioned earlier, virtually an infinite amount of things we could be doing.

We haven’t given ourselves the permission to focus on our priority instead of theirs.